Monday, March 14, 2011

“If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come”

~Chinese Proverb

I don't know about the weather where you live, but it's been a long winter here in the Northeastern United States. Thankfully, little signs of spring are starting to pop up everywhere--the purple crocuses are pushing through the cold dirt, the days are getting a little longer and the temperatures climb a bit higher each day. And with St. Patrick's Day coming up this week, I thought we could all use an extra splash of green in our lives...whether you've got the Irish in you or not!

I was instantly drawn to the green garden in soupatraveler's photo. I just adore how the leaves look like a pattern sweeping across the front of her dress. I love to play with natural textures in my shadow portraits--if you use your imagination when you look at my photo above from a recent trip to Texas, it almost looks like I am wearing a coat made of grass. Can you see it? (you kind of have to squint your eyes a little :)

I hope you all enjoyed the shadow portraits theme as much as I did. See you next week for mobile photography...I can't wait!

WOW!!!! What a wonderful surprise to wake up to this morning!!! Thanks you for featuring my Garden Girl shadow!!! I loved taking this last spring and your words about texture in shadow are soooo true! xoxoxo

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The Mortal Muses are nine female photographers from around the world. Each morning, one of the Muses posts a musing based on the previous photo submission theme and selects a companion photo from the mortal muses flickr pool to feature. We then move to the next theme.